Delany
Delany was given to 59 girls in 2025, #2,866 among girls’ names; 1,408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Delany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Delany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Delany?
#2,866 among girls’ names, 2025
Delany rose from #3,145 in 2015 to #2,866 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.7 to 36.7 per million.
90 babies in 2024, the peak
Delany peaked in 2024, when 90 girls were given it, #2,123 among girls’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,866 | 36.7 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,123 | 55.5 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,676 | 40.5 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,469 | 44.5 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,227 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 42 | #3,561 | 26.0 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,944 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,518 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,164 | 29.5 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,941 | 32.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 53 | #3,145 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,602 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,021 | 21.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,329 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,934 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,084 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,469 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,230 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,069 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,378 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,889 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,275 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,608 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,203 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,122 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,687 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,071 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,187 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,257 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,510 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,058 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,724 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,922 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,766 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,979 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Delany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Delany has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Delany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Delany, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,408 Americans ever recorded as Delany. The median Delany alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,106 people named Delany (1,046 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,031 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 592 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 697 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Delany born?
The states with the most babies named Delany are California, Texas and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14 | #1,598 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,942 | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,089 | 0.3× |
Where Delany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Delany is most over-represented in Texas: since 1990 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Delany with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Delany?
Delany is a less common spelling of Delaney: SSA has recorded 1,408 Delany and 46,650 Delaney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,347 babies since 1880, Delany is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 1,806 babies (3.3%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Delany
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Delany and names like it
- Compare Delany and DelaneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDelany peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Delany since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Delany.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Delany alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.